hey thanks joebert. These are super helpful real world problems and experiences that'll guide us.
I expected issues with just games but there was no way anyone would have known of the other ones. I wanna move this to the next step. Ian and I are convinced this holds promise. Here are some thoughts on the matter. - I wanna start a core group to get this project going. This group will focus only on this, and will only be composed of members who can provide help. - After determining members, a decision has to be made re OS and apps involved. - Each version will be burnt on a bootable image and distributed to beta testers. - We will need a few beta testers. - Someplace on the 'net to discuss revisions, issues, etc. - One or two internet cafes to dry run it on. - Once live, we need to host it somewhere, downloadable via torrent or something like that. - Update PLUG site (and whoever else is interested) re our progress. Inform press once we've got version 1 going. <-- I'll take care of this. Frankly, I don't think it's realistic to assume we'll replace all machines in an internet cafe 100%. However, I assume even 10% or 25% would be very welcome to most business owners. An XP license is 5k+, so imagine the savings. I'm grateful guys like joebert are coming out of the woodwork to provide their experiences (I told you, Ian! :) I'm sure there are many others, so please pass this around to geeks out there quietly working on worthwhile icafe projects on their own. If you feel that you can contribute in any way, either via helping determine apps, actually making apps (the billing issue is scary) or even as a beta tester, please email me directly. I am assigning myself in charge of this project until it can stand alone by itself. Gary On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 AM, joebert jacaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Theoretically a FOSS Internet Cafe sounds attractive. But when you > start doing it you encounter a lot of problems. So if there is a venue > to put the theory in to practice then all this problems can be sorted > out. I've been trying to help Cafe owners for free to have this setup > but get frustrated along the way. > > Here are some of the problems I encountered: > > 1. Drivers for built-in video cards (e.g. VIA) to handle 3D like > GoogleEarth. This is not a heavy 3D app. I ended up suggesting to buy > a cheap NVIDIA agp video card. It works but I'm not convince since you > need to shell out cash. > > 2. Flash plugin is not installed by default on Firefox. Well you may > say it is easy to install but put yourself coming from a windows world > where everything is as easy as point and click. > > 3. No yahoo messenger-like functionality. Kopete or Pidgin is good for > single user but not for multi-user. The hassle of adding accounts > before you can login. Installing gspca for the camera to work. > > 4. Cafe timer. Is there something that really works smooth and easy? > > 5. Games games games. Yeah StarCraft works but it's online gaming era. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://kikay.exchange.ph http://mom.exchange.ph http://basketball.exchange.ph ======================= Make life easier for Webmasters! http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=user/register&r=137994
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